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Of asthma, pneumonia, and appendectomy patients, are appendectomy patients likely to have the least number of other complications?

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Dr. Tony Ho answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Depends: It depends on how bad the appendicitis was. Appendicitis can rupture and cause sepsis, which would be critically bad.

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Answered 11/9/2014

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